Antiskidding tire attachment for wheels.



H. H. PREY. ANTISVKIDDING TIRE ATTACHMENT FOR WHEELS. APPLICATION FILED IBB..1, 1907.

915,713. Patented Mar. 16, r1909.

` UNITED s'rnlEs- PATENT OEEOE.

HERBERT H. VFREE, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To IVERJOHNSON SPORTING GOODS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

ANTISKIDDING TIRE ATTACHMENTFO WHEELS;

Boston, county` of Suffolk', State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Antiskidding Tire Attachments for Wheels, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is

a specification, like letters on thedrawing representing like parts. l

f t is Well known that the ties of automobiles are commonly'loadedwith cross chains connected by long side'chains that encircle the wheel vbetween the tread and the tire, the ,side chains anchoring the ends of the cross chains and serving to s ace the chains the desired distance apart, al the side and crossy chains being ap lied to or removed from a tire at one and t e same operation.

I have aimed to provide a series of independent cross chains each of which iS provided with an attaching member that ma be made tO embrace the spoke of the whee thus making it ossible to employ any desired number O cross chains and to apply them readily when the road demands, Or remove the same quickly.

My invention therefore comprehends a tire attachment comprising a cross chain having combined with it an attaching member that may be made to engage4 any spoke of a wheel.

Figure 1 shows an automobile wheel and its tire, the wheel havingapplied to it one of` my cross chains; Fig. 2 Shows my cross chain device detached and enlarged; and Fig. 3 shows one ofthe endmost links of the chain. The wheel A, hub A', spokes A2 and tire B are and may be of any usual construction. My tire attachment D comprises a short chain d of a sulicient length to partially embrace the tire, and an attaching member E preferablyk flexible and non-metallic, the ody of the attaching member being shown Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March -16, 1909. Application med February 1, 1907. seal No. 355,179.,

- as a iece of cord, the ends Of which are provided with engaging members e shown as hooks so constructed as to enable :the end links Of the chain to be con led with said hooks. The hooks Shown ave' an o en throat e preferably a little 'narrower't 'an the diameter of the wire used in making. the

chain links, and to enable the endmost z of the.chain to be engaged'with said hooks I preferably flatten one en d of eachendmost link, 'as shown at d', Fig. 3, so that only that parttof the link may enter the hook.

To app'l3 member Y as shown at es, seeF-ig, 1, about the Spoke where it meets'the rim of the Wheel,-

and as the wheel is run over the ground the ltheattaching. device I knot the i backward drag of the chain turns or twists 1 it On the tire and soon sets the knot snugly.

\ about theftire sothat it will not further move as the wheel'is used, the close setting of the lknotpreventing the slipping of the cord on vthe s o ke which might otherwise wear oil' the paint of the spoke.

' Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

lAn anti-Skiddin attachment for wheels comprising a fleXi le cord adapted vto be wound and knotted 4about a spoke, a hook attached to each end of the cord and having an open, contracted throat, and a chain to cross the tire and adapted to be connected at its ends withI the hooks, the endmost-links Y Of thel chain having a portion reduced in thickness to enter the contracted throats of the hooks.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe'presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

GEO; W. GREGORY,

EvANeELINE C. BROWN. 

